The Urban SpectatorAmerican Concept-Cities from Kodak to GoogleEric Gordon

Dartmouth College Press

Contents

• Acknowledgments• Introduction• More Than the Sum of Its Parts – The White City and Amateur Photography• Picture Thinking – Kodaking and the Art of Nature• City in Motion – Early Cinema and Times Square• Scaling Up – The ‘‘Speculative Architecture’’ of 1930s New York• The Operative City – The Machine Intelligence of Urban Renewal• Rerun City – Nostalgia and Urban Narrative• The Database City – The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard• Conclusion• Notes• References• Index